Aastii
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I won't buy into it unless I actually see some hard data. USB dirves are going to be way slower than a hard disk, so it is in return slower than virtual memory. Plus since Windows caches things out to RAM now on the constant since Vista, if you have 4gigs of RAM it most likely won't do much at all, and probably do nothing.
I think it is just a marketing scheme where MS had to put in features that competitors don't support. If it was truly that awesome of an idea, open source would have had it a long time ago. Since open source is generally ahead of closed source by several years in terms of technology.
I agree with what you say about systems with ample memory, for a system with 4+ GB of memory, it has enough to store all programs, and have plenty of space free. However, as I said, on older systems, or lower end systems, especially the likes of netbooks or your very small form factor systems which will generally have very low specs, I have found it helps